Jamie Oliver produced a scrummy and rather ingenious low carb dish on the latest prog in his new cookery series, Jamie at Home, the other evening: Crispy Asparagus Soldiers. Such a simple, yet brilliant, idea. Effectively, it’s asparagus wrapped in streaky bacon which is baked in the oven, and then used as ‘soldiers’ to dip in soft boiled eggs for breakfast (or any other time of the day for that matter).

BTW, for those in the US, streaky bacon is what you would call ordinary bacon; that is, it’s made from the pork belly, and not from the back, for example.